ances, and, after some trouble, I was released. My bail will expire on December 26." " You mean to try again, then?" " Yes, I'm going to jump off that j bridge in January next, the same week that Jem Smith and Jake Kilrain fight for the championship of the world." " Will you wait until they do fight before you try tho jump ?" MriVnovri was not to be had by this insidiou.- <vi mpt to see what he thought of the r •iiuiiiones" of tho pi ize-fijrhting "boom." Hc'cvoi, in anr-wei to a question as to KilminV> prospect*, of success, he delivered the following oracular statement :— " I'm Mr Fox's champion of the world in the matter of bridge jumping, and I think I'm the only champion of the world he'll have just yet in anything," " You have not been very well treated in this country, Mr Donovan, over your attempt to signalise the Jubilee." " No, it wasn't quite what I expected — to be sent to prison for a month. You see, I'm a great admirer of the Queen, and ib was my great ambition to be introduced to her after I jumped off Clifton Bridge in honour of her Jubilee. I was the only man that tried to do any feat specially in honour of the Jubilee— the only man in England, and I'm an American. I have a great respect for Her Majesty and for the Prince of Wales. I'd value a sixpenny medal from, the Prince more than a pur3o of gold from another man. I did jump from London Bridge you know, in honour of the Jubilee, on June 5. But I wanted to do the Clifton Bridge." j "You should not be over loyal by dcsI cent ; your name is an Irish one." "Yes. My father and mother both came from Dublin ; but I was born in America, and have lived there all my life. I have no i sympathy with the dynamiters, and that i lot. . I have never been to Ireland, and I'll never go there unless I get introduced to the Queen. Then I should go, when I was known as a friend of Her Majesty." "You have turned your hand to a good many things beside bridge jumping, haven't you ? " "Yes. I'm a printer by trade, you know, and have worked at it a good many years. I was President of the Pressmen's Union, Number 9, of New York,, .until recently. I served in the United State* Army— the Artillery, for eighteen months. I also served in the New York State Militia, and "Was a firefc lieutenanb in Company A, 12th Regiment, at the time of General Grant's funeral. lam also a lieutenanb inthe New York Volunteor Life-Saving Corps." " You have written poetry, I believe?" "Well," said Mr Donovan, with a conscious smile, " I have tried my hand at ib once or twice." He produced a manuscript* on which were inscribed the following verses, suggested by his sojourn in Bristol Prison : — It is night's silent hour ; on his lone prison cot A convict in slumber reposes; There's a smile on his lips, for there's hope in his dream, That sweet vision of freedom disoloxef. He dreams it has come— the day looked for solong, Through years of privation and pain, And with footsteps elate through the dark prison gate He steps forth to freedom again. Ho smiles in his sleep, for ho sees in his dream A form that is waiting to meet him ; His fond mother is there, and in smiles and In. tears With a kiss of affection doth greet him. But, hark I In his ear thoro broathes a Bad sound. Like tho notes of a funeral knell ; Alas, he but dreamt ! 'Tis the signal to rise, And sorrow returns with that bell. Oh, who can describe how the the convict must feel. When after the long weary years He mingles once more in the gay busy world. And Freedom's sweet music he hears I Ifc would be unjust to close this interview without mentioning some of tho gallant actions whioh- Mr Donovan has done.' No less than five people owe their lives to him, having been at various times rescued from drawing by his pluck and skill A fewyears ago he also saved from probable death two Boston ladies, by stopping the runaway horses of their carriage at great risk to himI self. The feat of jumping from Clifton Bridge, on the performance of which he has I set his heart, is a terribly dangerous one ; but if anyone can do ifc " Larry " Donovan is the man, and he himself has no doubt that he will accomplish it safely and sueMssfully.

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